George West, TX
George West, TX's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
George West's 1,537 buildings earn a 82nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks George West at the 83rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 79% of George West's 1,537 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 21% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
George West against the rest of the country
Inside Texas, George West sits at just the 65th percentile even though it scores 82nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, George West ranks 5,749 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,004 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 622 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in George West
George West's very high rating (82nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
George West's 79% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind George West's 5,749-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond George West, see the exposure-zones guide.